The upcoming Hungarian election could be close. They run a kind of mixed member system somwhat akin to NZ , but the limits mean the spoiler effect is still a thing. In 2018 Victor Orban’s party got two thirds of the seats off 48% of the vote due to a splintered opposition.
Last year the six major opposition parties held a series of primaries to select a PM candidate and also constituency candidates (the first such primaries in Hungarian history), and will run under a single United for Hungary banner. Polling is close.

Honestly it would be good if the British opposition parties could swallow their pride and do something like that…

dv said:

The upcoming Hungarian election could be close. They run a kind of mixed member system somwhat akin to NZ , but the limits mean the spoiler effect is still a thing. In 2018 Victor Orban’s party got two thirds of the seats off 48% of the vote due to a splintered opposition.
Last year the six major opposition parties held a series of primaries to select a PM candidate and also constituency candidates (the first such primaries in Hungarian history), and will run under a single United for Hungary banner. Polling is close.

Very interesting.

Let’s see what those parties are.

The Christian right wingers have it. They themselves are an alliance of two parties.

The six centre-left have banded together into “United for Hungary”. These are all very small.

Yes it’s an very broad alliance, much like the one that saw Netanyahu off.

The late polling broke Orban’s way, 53% odd, and it does appear the result is going to be something like that.

Democracy That We Don’t Like The Outcome Of Is Communism

SCIENCE said:

Democracy That We Don’t Like The Outcome Of Is Communism

Fascism in this case.

And there are usually plenty of allegations of fraud in Orban’s election victories.

There was another election in Europe last weekend, parliamentary and presidential elections in Serbia, but this was not expected to be close and indeed it was not.
Pro-Putin SNS leader Aleksandar Vučić won the presidential election with about 60% of the vote. In the Parliamentary elections, the SNS-led coalition (whose name is and I’m not making this up Aleksandar Vučić – Together We Can Do Everything) is going to fall short of a majority but they will be able to govern with support of far right parties.

So all in all a good weekend for Putin apart from the war.

dv said:

There was another election in Europe last weekend, parliamentary and presidential elections in Serbia, but this was not expected to be close and indeed it was not.
Pro-Putin SNS leader Aleksandar Vučić won the presidential election with about 60% of the vote. In the Parliamentary elections, the SNS-led coalition (whose name is and I’m not making this up Aleksandar Vučić – Together We Can Do Everything) is going to fall short of a majority but they will be able to govern with support of far right parties.

So all in all a good weekend for Putin apart from the war.

Nasty backward people wanna stay backward and nasty.

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

There was another election in Europe last weekend, parliamentary and presidential elections in Serbia, but this was not expected to be close and indeed it was not.
Pro-Putin SNS leader Aleksandar Vučić won the presidential election with about 60% of the vote. In the Parliamentary elections, the SNS-led coalition (whose name is and I’m not making this up Aleksandar Vučić – Together We Can Do Everything) is going to fall short of a majority but they will be able to govern with support of far right parties.

So all in all a good weekend for Putin apart from the war.

Nasty backward people wanna stay backward and nasty.

how’s the tennis been lately

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62313579
Hungary PM Viktor Orban adviser Hegedus resigns over ‘pure Nazi’ speech
A member of Viktor Orban’s inner circle has resigned after the Hungarian prime minister spoke out against becoming “peoples of mixed race”.
Zsuzsa Hegedus, who has known the nationalist Mr Orban for 20 years, described the speech as a “pure Nazi text”, according to Hungarian media.
The International Auschwitz Committee of Holocaust survivors called the speech “stupid and dangerous”.
Mr Orban’s spokesman said the media had misrepresented the comments.
The speech took place on Saturday in a region of Romania which has a large Hungarian community.
In it, Mr Orban said European peoples should be free to mix with one another, but that mixing with non-Europeans created a “mixed-race world”.
“We are willing to mix with one another, but we do not want to become peoples of mixed race,” he said.
Mr Orban’s anti-migration views are well known, but for Ms Hegedus, Saturday’s speech crossed a line.
“I don’t know how you didn’t notice that the speech you delivered is a purely Nazi diatribe worthy of Joseph Goebbels,” she wrote in her resignation letter, according to the Hungarian hvg.hu news website.

https://youtu.be/D6IxiwBKla0?si=DxKXPQ4XgsJd_2Tb

Orban may block European military buildup. EU leaders mull ways to expel Hungary from the Union.

The political situation in Hungary is unusual in that the polling is dominated by two centre-right parties who are both opposed to helping Ukraine: even if the opposition party (Tisza) wins after next year’s elections, the EU might still be faced with the same problem.

dv said:

time for expulsion.

party_pants said:

dv said:

time for expulsion.

Or maybe a constitutional change that lowers the bar for measures to pass. Unanimity is tough.